Taxes are not stealing. They are paying for the resources of society that you use. Rich and poor alike use those, but some get more benefit from them and should pay more for that. I have a lot more valuable stuff to protect than a homeless person for instance.
I never called them evil, everyone is just looking out for themselves. No different than when the rich lobby to add tax exemptions.
Your income after taxes will be much higher than now. I have a degree and did work while getting it too.
A sales tax could be made to be progressive, but on this side of the pond the sales tax/fair tax folks are stooges for the super wealthy. They want to shift the tax burden onto those who cannot afford to invest no matter the tax structure. Those who live hand to mouth.
By the way, I make enough money. I have no desire to make more right now, I love my job and lifestyle. My concern is for the poor who would get screwed under the system he proposes. Only in the USA have I seen deluded poor people speak your words.
You need to do some reading. The portion of a persons income which ends up as taxes will be much higher for the poor person under such a plan, because they must spend all their income. Much of it on things that are taxed in PA, gas, car repairs, etc.
The rich do not spend all of their income and under such a system that would exempt them from much of the tax burden.
A sales tax is aways a regressive tax. What we need is a reverse income tax, aka guaranteed income, and an income tax that has no exemptions. Before you call me a commie, I got that idea from Milton Friedman.
So there could be no good jobs if they charged $10 for the cable? Somehow amazon can sell cables at a fair price, I bet they have some good jobs to offer as well. Their printers seem reasonably priced as well. I am sick of this buggywhip manufacturer cursing at automobiles bullshit.
Neither one is a punishment. Taxes are the price of society. It is more sensible to take from those who can stand to lose it with the least amount of pain. Taking a few thousand from me might mean I go on one fewer vacation, from the working poor it would deprive them of all their disposable income if they have any. Ever noticed the scumbags that support these regressive tax systems are the ones who would benefit the most from them? No banker is going to support anything that deprives him of even a penny.
Release dates count, not when some intern thought of it. The "AppStore" thing in XP is pathetic, and app store like package management has been around before 1999 in linux land.
Apple did not copy BSD, Mac OS was replaced with NEXT. They then decided to rename NEXT to OSX.
I meant using it as a salt replacement for food. It is sold this way in pretty much every supermarket. I take a bunch of it for other reasons, but it does taste vaguely salt like.
You might also want to examine your reason for cutting out sodium. In a normal healthy human sodium levels are self regulating if you get enough water.
That would make them totally pointless. Lots of things are neurotoxins. Guess what? No matter what you do you will die, so we might as well have fun while we are here.
The end of nuclear power in Japan? What are they going to use instead? They have no coal, nor would shipping enough of it be feasible. They are not a good candidate for solar, maybe wave?
In reality Japan has no choice but to use nuclear power.
No. Check out DeltaV for earth and moon. Even worse remember that everything will have to go from earth to moon, then out. Your plan actually makes it more expensive. It would be cheaper to just launch from the earth to target. Unless you think that all the stuff you want to take to space is already sitting on the moon waiting.
Before you travel flash a stock rom onto your phone and replace the sd card with one containing no data. Mail yourself an sd card containing your data as a truecrypt blob.
Ok, so then what do you plan to do to the criminal in a million years or so? Using any reasonable encryption with any reasonable password no super computer yet built will ever crack the encrypted file within the lifetime of the suspect.
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Taxes are not stealing. They are paying for the resources of society that you use. Rich and poor alike use those, but some get more benefit from them and should pay more for that. I have a lot more valuable stuff to protect than a homeless person for instance.
I never called them evil, everyone is just looking out for themselves. No different than when the rich lobby to add tax exemptions.
Your income after taxes will be much higher than now. I have a degree and did work while getting it too.
A sales tax could be made to be progressive, but on this side of the pond the sales tax/fair tax folks are stooges for the super wealthy. They want to shift the tax burden onto those who cannot afford to invest no matter the tax structure. Those who live hand to mouth.
So self interest is only ok if you are rich?
By the way, I make enough money. I have no desire to make more right now, I love my job and lifestyle. My concern is for the poor who would get screwed under the system he proposes. Only in the USA have I seen deluded poor people speak your words.
You need to do some reading. The portion of a persons income which ends up as taxes will be much higher for the poor person under such a plan, because they must spend all their income. Much of it on things that are taxed in PA, gas, car repairs, etc.
The rich do not spend all of their income and under such a system that would exempt them from much of the tax burden.
A sales tax is aways a regressive tax. What we need is a reverse income tax, aka guaranteed income, and an income tax that has no exemptions. Before you call me a commie, I got that idea from Milton Friedman.
They don't need the vote, they buy politicians outright.
Sure, but they have to sell way more and more pirates of course.
So there could be no good jobs if they charged $10 for the cable?
Somehow amazon can sell cables at a fair price, I bet they have some good jobs to offer as well. Their printers seem reasonably priced as well. I am sick of this buggywhip manufacturer cursing at automobiles bullshit.
Is working at bestbuy your idea of a good job?
Neither one is a punishment. Taxes are the price of society. It is more sensible to take from those who can stand to lose it with the least amount of pain. Taking a few thousand from me might mean I go on one fewer vacation, from the working poor it would deprive them of all their disposable income if they have any. Ever noticed the scumbags that support these regressive tax systems are the ones who would benefit the most from them? No banker is going to support anything that deprives him of even a penny.
APT was released in 1999. It can even update a machine without human interaction once started, lets see this app store do that.
Release dates count, not when some intern thought of it.
The "AppStore" thing in XP is pathetic, and app store like package management has been around before 1999 in linux land.
Apple did not copy BSD, Mac OS was replaced with NEXT. They then decided to rename NEXT to OSX.
APT is from 1999. MS is way late to the game as usual.
Considering us linux folk are used to quality software for $0, please do tell us what we should be paying.
Paying more than the windows cheapskates is not altruism and I don't claim it is. It is just one more way I am better than windows users :)
I meant using it as a salt replacement for food. It is sold this way in pretty much every supermarket. I take a bunch of it for other reasons, but it does taste vaguely salt like.
Indeed it is, its use releases endorphins.
It may well be used for those purposes, the dose makes the poison.
Have you tried potassium chloride?
You might also want to examine your reason for cutting out sodium. In a normal healthy human sodium levels are self regulating if you get enough water.
That would make them totally pointless. Lots of things are neurotoxins. Guess what? No matter what you do you will die, so we might as well have fun while we are here.
If you apply it to that area it sure will. Capsaicin is fat soluble.
The end of nuclear power in Japan? What are they going to use instead? They have no coal, nor would shipping enough of it be feasible. They are not a good candidate for solar, maybe wave?
In reality Japan has no choice but to use nuclear power.
So you want to store you entire collection on one drive that is just waiting to die on you?
And only available on the one computer is it plugged into?
Social Security is self funding. That 700 billion comes out of the general budget. See the difference?
No. Check out DeltaV for earth and moon. Even worse remember that everything will have to go from earth to moon, then out. Your plan actually makes it more expensive. It would be cheaper to just launch from the earth to target. Unless you think that all the stuff you want to take to space is already sitting on the moon waiting.
Because one company has done things like that before, the other has not. Actions speak louder than words.
Before you travel flash a stock rom onto your phone and replace the sd card with one containing no data. Mail yourself an sd card containing your data as a truecrypt blob.
Ok, so then what do you plan to do to the criminal in a million years or so? Using any reasonable encryption with any reasonable password no super computer yet built will ever crack the encrypted file within the lifetime of the suspect.
You need some medicine, you are displaying magical thinking.